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What's the historical interaction between the Wish spell and increasing ability scores?
I vaguely recall Wishes in 1e affecting ability score increases going something like this:
a single Wish spell could increase any ability score to 16
you needed another Wish spell to get to 18
then ...
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History of the Wish Spell
A friend of mine was wondering about the history of the wish spell in Dungeons and Dragons. It is his suspicion that the spell “only” exists because they needed something for genies to cast to work in ...